The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-04-28
VOL. ii. NO. 36.
CURRENT TOPICS.

THERE are ten shades OF heliOtrope In
this springs goods.
lN Dcs MONIES they charge you one dollar
per quart for green peas.
AMEHIoAN capitalists are investing heayI.
~ - real estate In Mexico.
BUFFALO gnats have killed S9,IO0 Jor.
soy bull In Memphis, Tenn.
THE season Of colossal fish yarns NAV
now DO said TO have been fully inaugural.
cd.
Mn. DRiNKwArEn was candidate for
member OF the Denver Coli city council,
recently
Iowa aud Kansas people now put their
corn into hogs aud hominy, instead Of the
diAtlllery.
thrkhoR WILLIAM is hopeful Of contin-
ned poace still he keeps his weather eye
on tho Gar.
TnE world probably holds no more rest
lessor uncomfortable man than tho Gar
OF oil q Russias.
Kiso MiwAsGA, Of Africa, ia opposed 10
single blcsscdness. lie is eighteen years
old and has 1000 wives
TnE production Of pig iron in this eoun.
try IA now about iSl,OO tons week or
greater than over before.
Tnr natural gasexcltcment In Indiana is
on tho increase. Il Is more than an ex-
cltement-it is an upronr
TnE Journal ef Education says: 'Ncver
allow child 10 use short pencil. lead OF
slate, II spoils the handwritingn
THs red flag Of the auoiiouccr has bo
come unpopular In Chicago since It's prom.
inent display as tho Insignia OF anarchy.
IL Is agreed that tho finest pork made in
tbcworld is that Of Tho Madeira Islands,
whore tho swine live principally on nuts.
''Tm low.nccked dross must Co." says
MI exchange. Which way, peasel 1t
cant well go lower, that is, conveniently.
ln Austria the full ttlc Of tho Official
forest inspector is kaiscrlich kontglich,
Staaisoiaenbahn holSyorsorgungsinNpo
tor
Tnr suppression Q free passes will aug
mcnt tho national stock of log muscle IL
Is an VI overflow that deposits no allu.
yium.-
rlssrNorR trairs, with bath rooms,
barber shops restaurants, and saloons
arc 10 be put on tho route between Chicago
and New York.
Tnr message Of tho Goveraor OF Mime;
sofa Is printed In ten languages, rcprc.
senting tho linguistic capacity Of that in
ierestiug state
ScoTr BAR CAT, has the iallcst post,
master IN tho United states. Ho stands
over seven feet m his stockings and
weighs pounds
PocKrrs In dresses are again fashion.
able. The pickpooltct is not holped any by
this What man could eyer lind . pocket
In woman's dress
IL boring nm artcsnn wcll at Eureka,
Cal. they found charicd wood ~ lJn feet
and pieces Of sholl ard parts OF The >tclc
ton Of bird at - fcct, 1
Az English surgeon Says that people who
use rocking chairs the most get deaf the
soonest Rocking also hurts the eyes and
makes people near sighted
ATRANr is travelling through Mchignn
begging two crnts from every person he
meets In order as he SAYS, 10 bus post.
age stamp 10 send a letter tn his wife.
TuE Foster homestead at Pittsburgh.
whore the late stephen G. Eostcrwrote
his "Old Folks AZ Homc,is 10 he torn
down by its new owner, Mr. Horny Ham.
mcr.
Az unexpected champion for ihc corset
has arisen in fashionable doctor who
declares that The corset is public benefit
It causes all the fools among women 10
die young.
fmLkprlrnn has forty.onc National
banks and New York forty.nyo, The bank
deposits in the City Of Brqthcrly Love
amount TO s5h,si ,s67, aud IN Gotham TO
tsS7, III, los,
TuE Chicago f,ttrr- Occ,pt says The silence
Of the st Louis press upon the subject OF
baseball beats Quaker meeting One
can hear 81 1.ouisan breathe across the
length OF tho bridge. >
MINSIE BoNp, colorcd buried NJ Falls
Church, Va, few days ago had docu.
mcnts 10 prove that she was one hundred
and twonty-oight years old She romom-
bcred General Washington,
BRrc-k.HRAo is n contraction OF the
French d, bric Il de broc, 'by hook or by
crook" ION this side and that It is ap
piled to miscellaneous collections of odd
and rare articles OF real value
TnERE lives in New Hampshire, or did
few months ago, man who once prescn
cd a bill TO the administrator Of his
father's estate for tho time lost in attend.
ing the old gentleman's funeral
THE gross public debt of Canada on
March 81 was S97O,3i0, l36; net debt, SOS,
S65,S3i revenue from sale Of Dominion
lands last year, homestead aud prc,omp-
tion sales, $500, ,3Il; leases, SiaB,6lS
THE ncxt convention OF crowned heads
and princes and princesscs Of the blood
will be at London at the Queens Jubilee |
.,ainhrattan IA 4. -.
tain them in royal style at public expense
A TRxAs steer picked up Miss Louise
Danforth, OF st. Louis, ON his horns,
tossed her over fence into yard, and
she stood there and cried because one of
the ribs OF her parasol was broken in the
loss.
CHARLES +. RuGGLEs, a millionaire lum-
herman Of Manistee, Mich, is so strong
believer In the maxim that cleanliness is
next to godlncss," that he is dovoting
part OF his wealth to establishing public
baths in some Of the larger cities of the
Northwest.
WE are told that most OF the Baltimore
water Is now swarming with red and
white bugs, which are, however, harmless
10 drink. "Bug juice has been mme
morally the slang for different sort OF
beverage, but under present conditions IL !
must be made to apply to the product of
the hydrant as well rs TO the product o:
the still.
Di,. MKRRlMkNN, of the Department OF |
Agriculture, insists that something must
be done at once to destroy the English
sparrow or else the curse will grow TO
snch a magnitude that IL will bo necessary
TO draw on the public treasury TO destroy
II.
or three sisters in New York, one has
jew for husband, another q Protestant
and tho third u Roman Catholic They |
met by appointment says the Times, ut the
residence OF the latter on Easter Sunday |
night Tho Jewess, presiding at the piano, |
rang the touching Methodist hymn, 'Shall